Traveling back to ancient times to determine the zodiac

"Xing, you are so patient. If I knew where Bai Ling lives, I would catch it immediately." Chen said angrily.

"Chen, Bai Ling is a god, how can he come just like that? If you don't want to wait, go and do your work. Just leave me here to pray." Xiaoxing scolded.

Chen agreed, then led Lan'er and Yue to leave, leaving Xiaoxing and Hong'er to continue praying there.

As expected, hard work pays off. At night, a voice suddenly came from the deserted beach: "Xing, three hundred miles to the south, there is a mountain called Wanjun Mountain. There are many bamboos on the mountain. On the mountainside there is a big bird named Peng, with a wingspan of ten feet and eyes on the top of its crown. If you want to defeat the rooster, you must first ask Peng for help."

Xiaoxing looked carefully and found that it was Bai Ling who appeared on the wasteland. Just as he was about to ask her, she suddenly disappeared.

"Brother Xing, Bai Ling finally showed up. We have a solution." Hong'er shouted excitedly.

"God will not let down those who work hard. Hong'er, let's tell everyone quickly." Xiaoxing jumped up happily, took the statue and left.

When they got back to the camp, Xiao Xing shouted, "Uncle Zhi, Brother Dong, and all the brothers, we have a solution!"

"Xing, why are you yelling in the middle of the night? You woke everyone up from their sweet dreams!" Feng complained, rubbing his sleepy eyes.

"Brother Feng, Bai Ling showed up just now. It told us that in order to defeat the rooster, we must go to Wanjun Mountain 300 miles south to find Dapeng. Only it can help us capture the Bird King Island." Xiaoxing hurriedly told everyone what had just happened.

"Xing, that's great!" Zhi was also very happy when he heard it: "Since Bai Ling has shown up to give instructions, let's organize a team and set off at dawn."

So everyone got up too, prepared bows, arrows, spears, stone knives and other weapons overnight, took some dry food, and waited for dawn.

At dawn, Xiaoxing and Dong, Chen, Xi, Bei, and sixty other fire warriors went to invite Dapeng as usual. Xiaoxing led the team to set off, and Zhi reminded them, "Xing, Dong, this trip to invite Dapeng will be difficult and dangerous. Everyone must be careful and try to return as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, Uncle Zhi, we will definitely complete the mission successfully." Xiaoxing nodded and said.

After saying goodbye to Zhi, Xiaoxing and Dong headed south to invite Dapeng. Along the way, there were strange peaks and rocks, dangerous mountains and dangerous waters. Everyone kept walking and cutting, clearing the way forward. After walking for three days, they saw a mountain in front of them, which was lush and green with bamboo forests. Some of these bamboos were as thick as a bowl, and some were as thin as a finger. They stood tall and straight, covering the whole mountain.

Xiao Xing pointed at the bamboo forest and said to everyone, "Brother Dong, Chen, look, the mountain ahead is all bamboo forest. It must be the so-called Wanjun Mountain."

"Yeah. I think Dapeng must be on the mountainside, so everyone should be careful." Dong said, and took the lead with a stone axe.

Wanjun Mountain is high and deep. Once you enter the bamboo forest, it becomes extremely dark. The mountain wind blows the bamboo branches, and the swaying shadows are like mountain spirits dancing. As everyone was walking deeper into the mountain, they suddenly heard a shrill cry coming from the mountainside, which shocked everyone.

"What's that sound? It sounds creepy!" Xiaoxing asked everyone in confusion.

"I don't know. The cry is so sharp and long, we've never heard it before." Dong shook his head, equally confused.

"Chiu——" another sound was heard, which made people shudder with fear and horror.

"Brother Dong, Xing, I heard from the old people that in the ancient deep mountains, there are often ghosts and spirits. Could we have encountered a mandrill?" Xi asked with some fear.

"If it's a mandrill, we'll be in trouble. They come and go without a trace, and there's nowhere to fight them." Bei followed.

"Then, what should we do?" Heizi's legs trembled when he heard this, and he said, "Brother Dong, should we go back?"

"This..." Dong was pondering, Xiaoxing shouted: "Brother Xi, Heizi, what nonsense are you talking about? We have come here with so much hardship. This scream may not be from a mandrill. Even if it is, we have to bite the bullet to invite Dapeng and defeat the Chicken King."

"Xing is right. We must not give up halfway. We must invite Dapeng no matter what." Chen followed.

Seeing that Dong didn't say anything, Xi and Heizi had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Xiao Xing encouraged everyone, "Brothers, there are so many of us. We can kill beasts and ghosts. What is there to be afraid of?" After that, he tightened his belt, raised his stone knife, and led the way. Everyone had no choice but to follow.

As they got closer to the mountainside, the heart-wrenching screams of ghosts were getting closer and closer, making everyone's scalps numb. Just as they were about to take a peek, a sharp voice asked, "Animal coming down the mountain, stop. If you dare to come forward again, I will attack you."

Hearing this, everyone was startled again. They looked in the direction of the sound, but saw that the mountainside was full of strange rocks and there was not a single bamboo. A strange bird about the size of a chicken king stood on a boulder and asked in a cold tone.

Xiao Xing looked at the strange bird carefully and found that its eyes were indeed on the fleshy crest on its head. So he answered excitedly: "We are not animals, we are smart humans. Excuse me, are you Dapeng?"

"Yes, I am Dapeng." Dapeng nodded, and then asked: "Why did you humans come to see me? Do you want to eat my eggs too?"

"Eat your eggs?" Xiao Xing waved his hands hastily, explaining his purpose: "No, no. We are here to ask Da Peng for help."

"Ask me for help? Why?"

"Yes." Xiaoxing replied, "Dapeng, do you know the Nian Beast? In order to conquer us humans, the brutal Nian Beast sent many beast kings to attack us, causing continuous casualties among us humans. In order to resist the Nian Beast, we decided to eliminate it. But the Nian Beast knew that we wanted to eliminate it, so it hid from the beast kings. With our persistent pursuit, we defeated and subdued the horse king, sheep king, monkey king and other beast kings. Now the Nian Beast has fled to the Bird King Island of the Rooster King. We have failed in our two attacks, so we came here to ask for your help to defeat the rooster and eliminate the Nian Beast."

"Emperor Nian, King of Chickens?" Dapeng was not surprised and said calmly, "I know them all, but why should I help you?"

It turned out that Dapeng and the rooster were both spirits at about the same time. Emperor Nian once asked them to serve together. The rooster reluctantly agreed to save his life. But Dapeng refused for the sake of freedom. So Emperor Nian was furious and wanted to eat Dapeng, but it escaped. From then on, he stayed in Wanjun Mountain and dared not go out.

Although Dapeng had a grudge against Emperor Nian, it did not want to fight with the rooster, so it refused.

"Dapeng, the Nian beast is extremely cruel. If you help us eliminate it, we will be rid of a harm to the world. Isn't that a good thing?" Xiaoxing became anxious when he saw Dapeng refused.

"If you want to eliminate Emperor Nian, that's your business. I don't want to get involved. You guys go back!" Dapeng remained unmoved.

"You..." Xiao Xing was still trying to persuade him, but suddenly, a hoarse and harsh voice came from the other side of the boulder and said, "You humans are so annoying. Since it has rejected you, get out of here!"

Everyone was shocked again and took a closer look at the talking monster. It looked like a big lizard, three meters long and ten meters tall, with short and thick limbs, a small head and small eyes, and its body was covered with thick scales. The most peculiar thing was its long tail with a big tumor at the end, like a sledgehammer.

"Who are you, a monster? How dare you arrogantly tell us to get out? Is this your territory?" Dong was furious when he heard it.

"My name is Egg-Eating Lizard. You guys are making so much noise and disturbing my meal." After saying that, the Egg-Eating Lizard swung its tail and hit a big roc's egg. With a "pop", the egg cracked and it immediately began to eat it.

"Chiu——" Upon seeing this, Dapeng let out another ghostly cry, seeming to be very sad.

Xiaoxing then realized that the ghost-like scream just now was actually made by Dapeng.

It turned out that the egg-eating lizard smelled the scent of the Dapeng bird's eggs and climbed to the Dapeng's nest on the mountainside to steal the eggs. Dapeng of course refused, and the two sides started a fierce fight. The egg-eating lizard's scales were thick and hard, and Dapeng's sharp claws and beak posed no threat to it at all. Instead, it was hit by the egg-eating lizard's hammer tail and almost fell off the cliff. Dapeng had no choice but to watch the egg-eating lizard smash and eat its eggs one by one. Every time it ate one, Dapeng screamed in pain until Xiaoxing and his group arrived.

Seeing the situation clearly, Xiao Xing immediately came up with an idea, so he said to Da Peng: "Da Peng, as long as you promise to help us defeat the rooster, we are willing to help you defeat the egg-eating lizard. How about it?"

"Can you defeat the egg-eating lizard?" Dapeng found it unbelievable.

"Of course! As long as you agree." Xiaoxing answered confidently.

"Okay!" Dapeng answered cheerfully, "As long as you defeat the egg-eating lizard, I will immediately help you defeat the rooster."

"Great!" Seeing that Dapeng agreed to leave the mountain, Xiaoxing turned to everyone and said, "Brother Dong, Brother Xi, Chen, and all the brothers, in order for Dapeng to leave the mountain smoothly, we must first defeat the egg-eating lizard."

"Xing, everyone shoot arrows together and turn the egg-eating lizard into a hedgehog." Dong said, then he bent his bow and arrow and shot at the egg-eating lizard.

"Puff", although the arrow hit the target, it was bounced back by the hard scales without breaking the skin or causing bleeding.

These arrows were like tickling to the egg-eating lizard. It stopped sucking the eggs and laughed wildly, "You think you can defeat me with something like this? It's ridiculous, too ridiculous!"

After a while, everyone had shot all their arrows, and the egg-eating lizard was unharmed.

"The scales of this monster are too hard, and bows and arrows can't hurt it at all. Brothers, follow me." Dong abandoned the bow, raised the stone axe high, and climbed towards the boulder.

Xi, Xiaoxing and the others followed and climbed up, and soon they climbed onto the boulder. The egg-eating lizard was not afraid of seeing everyone coming up, and the two sides confronted each other.

"Hey! Monster, look at the axe." Dong roared and chopped down the egg-eating lizard's head with an axe.

The scales of the egg-eating lizard were indeed too hard, and Dong's fierce blow still failed to injure it. However, although it didn't injure it, it still made it scream in pain, and turned around and swept its tail across.

Before Dong could react, he was hit hard on the buttocks. He immediately lost his balance and fell off the cliff.

"Brother Dong, how are you?" Xi asked loudly, and then went to rescue Dong with the tree roots and leaves.

Except for Xiaoxing, everyone else was too scared to move forward. Xiaoxing shouted, "Everyone, come with me. I don't believe we can't kill this monster."

Xiaoxing raised his knife again and chopped at the egg-eating lizard's foot. With a "pop" sound, although he hit it, he still failed to injure it.

The others saw Xiaoxing rushing forward without caring about his own life, so they all rushed forward together. Stone knives, stone axes, spears and short sticks were used to attack the monitor lizard. The egg-eating lizard also fought back bravely, swinging its big hammer tail and sweeping towards everyone. A melee between humans and beasts ensued.

Soon, everyone on the cliff was swept down by the egg-eating lizard, but the egg-eating lizard was only slightly injured. The egg-eating lizard raised its head and laughed: "You guys are overconfident, you better get out of here and don't delay my meal."

After saying that, he continued to smash eggs and eat. Dapeng saw that humans were also defeated, and he wailed in despair.

Everyone under the boulder was crying out "Ouch, ouch!" Xiaoxing turned over and got up to check himself. He was not injured, so he asked everyone, "Chen, Yue, Feng, Yun...are you all injured?"

Fortunately, the cliff was not high, and everyone managed to climb up one by one. After checking themselves, they found that no one was seriously injured.

"Xing, only Brother Dong got hit on the butt by the monster and now he can't walk. The others are all fine." Chen replied while rubbing his injured arm.

"Oh, Brother Dong, how are you? Are you okay?" Xiaoxing walked quickly towards Dong.

"Xing, I'm fine, I just need to rest!" Although Dong said he was fine, he was actually in severe pain.